Condemned last June to pay ten million dollars to her ex-husband, the actress says she “lost faith in the American judicial system”.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
Towards an epilogue of the legal saga between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. The actress announced Monday, December 19 on social networks Having concluded an agreement to put an end to the procedure for the appeal of the defamation trial which opposed it to its former husband in the United States.
“After a long reflection I made the difficult decision to conclude an agreement,” said the star on Instagram, after being sentenced to first instance to pay ten million dollars to her ex-husband, who was to His side pay him two million. “I made this decision after losing faith in the American judicial system, as part of which my public testimony served as entertainment and gave grain to grind to social networks,” added the 36 -year -old actress, who had initially called upon.
The legal battle between the ancient spouses stems from a Tribune published by the Washington Post In 2018 , in which Amber Heard described himself as “a public figure representing domestic violence”, without naming his ex-husband. Assuring that this text had destroyed his reputation and his career, Johnny Depp, 59, had continued his ex-wife in defamation to obtain $ 50 million in damages. Amber Heard had counter-attacked and asked for double.
At the end of six weeks of debate, the jurors of the Fairfax court, in the suburbs of Washington, had concluded that the ex-spouses had mutually defamed, but had estimated that the damage suffered by Johnny Depp were superior .
The trial, ultra-mediatized and broadcast live on television, was followed by millions of viewers around the world and has caused a unleashing of messages hostile to the actress on social networks.